VIDEO: Make a lantern out of parchment

With parchment and tracing paper, a beautiful lantern for St. Martin's Day can be tinkered in next to no time. Here the parchment is pasted with tracing paper, alternatively you can also paint it with wax crayons. It's up to you.

Parchment and tracing paper lantern - instructions

1. First you need to tape the sheet of parchment paper. By the way, the size of the parchment depends on the size of the cheese box. The sheet of paper must fit around the cheese box.
2. Now tear up different ones together with your child Colours of the tracing paper into small snippets.
3. Apply glue to a small area of ​​the parchment and stick the colorful scraps of paper on it. Continue in this way until the entire parchment is covered with brightly colored stickers.
4. Now let the sheet of paper dry very well.


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Glue the parchment lantern together - this is how it's done

1. When the sheet of parchment paper is dry, tape it around the bottom half of the cheese box.
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2. Now cut a hole in the lid of the cheese box, where the candle or lantern stick will find space afterwards.
3. Now glue the cheese box lid to the top of the lantern.
4. Use a hole punch to make two holes in the top of the cardboard edge and attach the craft wire to it. This will later serve as a holder for the lantern stick.
5. The lantern should now dry for another 2 hours and is then ready.

If your child is still very young, it is better not to use real candles. The use of an electric lantern stick or an LED tea light makes sense here. This is less dangerous than real candles and ensures innocent lantern fun at St. Martin.